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Technology convergence trends in security is theme for this year's conference
LANGKAWI, Malaysia; January 22, 2007
- Fortinet - the pioneer and leading provider of unified threat management (UTM) solutions -
today announced that it will hold its APAC Partner Conference for 2007 on January 23 and 24 on the island of Langkawi in Malaysia. The annual conference aims to give Fortinet's current and prospective partners information and insights into Fortinet's corporate direction and product strategy for the year, the outlook for the computer and network security market, and previews of upcoming products.
This year's conference will feature presentations from CEO Ken Xie, CFO Brett White, and CMO Richard Stiennon, who will present on Fortinet's vision of secure networks and convergence of security and networking technologies.
Over 150 representatives from Fortinet distributors, resellers and major systems integrators from across the Asia Pacific region, have confirmed their attendance at this year's conference.
"The strong response for this year's APAC Partner Conference reflects the intense and growing interest in our technology, products and market strategies. Our partners have seen the adoption of UTM by businesses and organizations of all sizes, take off in their respective countries, and are eager to hear about our roadmap for this year, and how we intend to expand our market share for security products," said Hansen Chang, vice president, Asia-Pacific, Fortinet Inc.
About Fortinet (www.fortinet.com)
Fortinet is the pioneer and market-leading provider of ASIC-accelerated unified threat management systems, which are used by enterprises and service providers to increase their security while reducing total operating costs. Fortinet solutions were built from the ground up to integrate multiple levels of security protection--including firewall, antivirus, intrusion prevention, Web content filtering, VPN, spyware prevention and antispam--providing customers a way to protect multiple threats as well as blended threats. Leveraging a custom ASIC and unified interface, Fortinet solutions offer advanced security functionality that scales from remote office to chassis-based solutions with integrated management and reporting. Fortinet solutions have won multiple awards around the world and are the only security products that are certified eight times over by the ICSA (firewall, antivirus, IPSec, SSL, IDS, client antivirus detection, cleaning and antispyware). Fortinet is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California.
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